Alessandro Sibilio

Alessandro Sibilio
nation	Italy
birthday	April 27, 1999 (age 21)
place of birth	Naples , Italy
size	187 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	50.34 s
society	SSD Centro Ester Napoli Arl (2011–2016) Atletica Riccardi (2017–2019) GS Fiamme Gialle (since 2019)
Trainer	Gianpaolo Ciappa
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U18 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
U20 world championships gold Tampere 2018 4 × 400 m  U20 European Championships gold Grosseto 2017 4 × 400 m silver Grosseto 2017 400 m hurdles  European Youth Championships gold Tbilisi 2016 400 m hurdles gold Tbilisi 2016 Sprint relay (1000 m)
last change: May 31, 2020

Alessandro Sibilio (born April 27, 1999 in Naples ) is an Italian hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Alessandro Sibilio gained his first international experience in 2016 when he won the gold medal in the hurdles in 51.46 s at the first European Youth Championships in Tbilisi , as well as with the Italian sprint relay (1000 meters) in 1: 52.78 min. He then started at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz with the 4 x 400 meter relay, but was disqualified there in the final. The following year, he won the silver medal at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto, his home country, in 50.34 seconds and won the relay in 3: 08.68 minutes. In 2018 he finished eighth at the U20 World Championships in Tampere in 52.38 seconds and won the relay in 3: 04.05 minutes. At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , he retired with the men's relay with 3: 03.97 minutes in advance and reached fourth place with the mixed relay in 3: 20.28 minutes. He then retired from the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 52.23 s in the first round and was disqualified with the relay in the final.

In 2019 , Sibilio became Italian champion in the 400-meter hurdles and in the 4-by-400-meter relay.

Personal best

• 400 meters: 46.48 s on June 23, 2019 in Orvieto
  • 400 meters (hall): 47.57 s, March 3, 2018 in Nantes
• 400 m hurdles: 50.34 s, July 23, 2017 in Grosseto

Web links

• Alessandro Sibilio in the database of World Athletics (English)